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Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… in Commandos and the Defence Force, arrested trade union leaders and Labour Party members, and deported nine trade union leaders without trial. The action of…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
… Mr. Chairman, Mr. Prime Minister, Comrade leaders of SWAPO of Namibia, Foreign guests, Your … brothers and sisters who share a common nationhood. Leaders of…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… enemy dealt a heavy blow to our movement in 1963. Its core leaders were arrested and later sentenced to life … and capacity within the ANC. Many of those who…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… with the co-operation of the other Provincial and Local leaders. A Telegram demanding the withdrawal of the Police … summoned a meeting between his…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… However, in the younger generation of White trade union leaders there is an increasing number of Afrikaners. A few of … to pressure from the rank and file…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… people from their common enemy - imperialism." To the CP leaders, the "leading role of the working class" was to be … seeking to reach with the liberal…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… Bus Service Committee is set up by the ANC and it includes leaders of the community, representatives from Trade Unions, … on Victory in Europe Day (VE Day)…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… by intensified campaigning by thousands of our volunteers, leaders of our structures throughout the country, supporters … all sectors of our communities,…
Address at the opening of The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Durban 12 November 1999
… and Government, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Leaders of Delegation and Ministers, High Commissioners and … globe. Constituted as it is, and having…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest leaders of the freedom struggle: a colossus and yet a foot … democratic. In doing so he taught us the…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… - one long, foul slander against South African trade union leaders, with myself heading the list. I issued summons … Beperk, a publishing house in…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… struggle. [12] Here, she worked alongside many famous leaders such as Nelson Mandela . However, in 1963 Nyembe was … underground.” [20] She was considered…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first democratic President at the Union…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", …
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… eventually withdrawn. In a move similar to this three UDF leaders, Murphy Morobe (Publicity Secretary), Valli Moosa …
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… opposition politicians, lawyers, academics and church leaders to lead demands for the end of prolonged solitary …
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, together with other political exiles and refugees, …
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… human rights ... from all quarters". In the meantime, ANC leaders said that they felt it was inappropriate to take …
EventBotha found Guilty
… committee. Click here to read more about South African leaders being exposed before the TRC for their role in …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… to be drawn on whether he was in formal talks with ANC leaders about his future. De Beer said he had opted to resign …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… W.P. Schreiner led a deputation of Black and Coloured leaders to London to appeal to the British government to …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… was established. Trade was undertaken with various African leaders, often unscrupulously, in which vast amounts of land …
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… businessmen such as John Fairburn and JB Ebden as leaders, with influence reaching up to the British …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… time. This is merely the precipitating event and their leaders are preparing themselves for the struggle”¦If they … to the minimum concession which would be…
EventUnions protest against the circumstances of Aggett's death
… opposition politicians, lawyers, academics and church leaders to lead demands for the end of prolonged solitary …
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… promised to arrest and charge both the individuals and leaders of the attack. To view what happened follow the link …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… of the ANC also came to the gathering, as did other union leaders. There were calls for a strike, but the executive of … Africa’s gold mining industry as for…
EventVorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves
… in the Northern Transvaal during which he held talks with leaders of the North Sotho, Tswana and Venda homelands. The …
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… of the ANC, Deputy President of the State, Traditional leaders who are with us and leaders, Political parties coming from all over the world and … of the…
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… 16, 1977, (2) and attended, amongst others, by the co-leaders of the Patriotic Front - Presidents Nkomo and Mugabe, … the structures of apartheid remained…